Charles Morin Fine Art Paintings

Martin Grelle (Born 1954) Clifton Texas Artist Image Size: 24 x 36 Frame Size: 33 x 45 Medium: Oil on Canvas 1978 "Night Stop" Nocturnal Western painting Signed lower left Biography Martin Grelle (Born 1954) Martin Grelle, b. 1954, Clifton, Texas, (United States) Born and raised in Clifton, Texas, Martin Grelle still lives on a small ranch a few miles from town. His studio sits in the picturesque Meridian Creek Valley, surrounded by the oak & cedar-covered hills of Bosque County, just a short distance from his home, but also within a few miles of the family and friends who are so important in his life. He has two sons, Josh & Jordan, who have left home to pursue their own dreams, but who stay in touch frequently. Martin's parents, Ervin & Ella, have both passed from this life, but he still has his brothers, Carl & Marvin, living nearby, as well as his sister, Mary, who lives in Ft. Worth. Martin began drawing and painting when he was very young, and was fortunate to have James Boren and Melvin Warren, two professional artists and members of the Cowboy Artists of America, move to the area when he was still in high school, and it has had a lasting impact on his direction and career. Mentored by Boren, he had his first one-man show at a local gallery within a year of graduating from high school in 1973. In the nearly 40 years since that time, he has produced some 30 one-man exhibitions, including annual shows in Scottsdale, Arizona since 1989, and has won awards of both regional and national importance at shows around the country. He was invited into membership with the Cowboy Artists of America in 1995, fulfilling a dream begun in the early 70's when he first met Boren and Warren. That same year he was invited to participate in the first Prix de West Invitational at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Since that time, he has won the Prix de West Purchase Award, twice (one of only seven artists to do so), the Nona Jean Hulsey Rumsey Buyers' Choice Award, twice, the CA People's Choice Award in 2002, the CA Ray Swanson Award in 2008, the CA Buyers' Choice Award in 2011 and 2012, and the Silver Award for Water Solubles in 2012. He was awarded the Legacy Award by The Briscoe Museum in 2012, for his impact on western art. Other major invitational exhibitions and sales Martin has participated in include The Masters at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles, and the inaugural Quest for the West at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, the Coeur d'Alene Auction, and the Jackson Hole Art Auction. Martin has also been featured in a number of publications throughout his career, including multiple appearances in the following magazines: Art of the West, Western Art Collector, Southwest Art, Western Art and Architecture, Persimmon Hill, American Cowboy, Western Horseman, Informant, Wild West, and True West's magazine's 2011 Best of the West Source Book. He was honored with a retrospective showing of his work, along with fellow CA artist, Herb Mignery, for the Gilcrease Museum's Rendezvous Show 2013. Martin has a real sense of responsibility to his collectors, which fills his heart every morning when he walks into the studio, believing that what he does is a gift entrusted to him from God, and must not be left unused or taken for granted, but developed and improved upon. His parents and Jim and Mary Ellen Boren, all set that example for him - an example of not only striving to be the best artist he can be, but the best man he can be as well. Beyond his studio, Martin strives to pass on what others have passed to him. He has given multiple demonstrations around the country, teaches an annual weekend workshop along with his good friend, and fellow CA, Bruce Greene - which they have done for 22 years straight - and mentors other aspiring artists by critiquing their work. He has donated work to a large number of organizations to aid in their progress, including The Bosque Arts Center in Clifton, Texas. He has twice served on the board of directors for the CA organization and is currently serving as President. He is also involved with The Joe Beeler Foundation, founded by the Cowboy Artists of America to coincide with their mentoring program, which provides scholarship opportunities for artists seeking to improve their skills, and has served as President of the Foundation for the past year as well. Education Self-taught; mentored by James Boren Cowboy Artists of America Museum, Kerrville, TX, Workshop, Harvey Johnson/Melvin Warren, 1983 Bosque Conservatory, Clifton, TX, Workshop, Bettina Steinke...

Lester Hughes (1938-2021) El Paso Artist Image Size: 18 x 36 Frame Size: 20 x 38 Medium: Oil on Canvas "Stagecoach To Nowhere" Biography Lester Hughes (1938-2021) From El Paso, Texas...

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 30 x 40 Frame Size: 39 x 49 Medium: Oil on Canvas 1965 "Hacienda Blanca" Texas ...

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 24 x 30 Frame Size: 36 x 42 Medium: Oil on Canvas 1975 "The New Filly" Mr. Ger...

Marc Graigson California Artist Size: 9 x 12 Frame: 15.75 x 18.75 Medium: Oil on Board "California Wildflowers"

William Ballantine Dorsey (1942-2019) California Artist Size: 11 x 14 Frame: 17.5 x 20.5 Medium: Oil on Canvas "Early Santa Barbara" Biography William Ballantine Dorsey (1942-2019) O...

William Ballantine Dorsey (1942-2019) California Artist Image Size: 16 x 20 Frame Size: 23.5 x 27.5 Medium: Oil on Canvas "California Landscape"

Darwin William Duncan (1905-2002) California/Minnesota Artist Image Size: 16 x 20 Frame Size: 22.75 x 26.75 Medium: Oil on Canvas "North Huntington Beach" Biography Darwin William Du...

Olive Brack San Antonio River (1890-1957) San Antonio, TX Image Size: 12 x 18 Frame Size: 15.5 x 21.5 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dated 1912 "Lilly Pads" Biogra...

Caroline Shelton Image Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Frame Size: 17 x 19.5 Medium: Watercolor "King William House"

Dorothy Johnson Image Size: 12 x 16 Frame Size: 14.5 x 18.5 Medium: Oil "Prickly Pear"

Cynthia Wiggins Austin Artist Image Size: 14 x 11 Frame Size: 19 x 16 Medium: Oil "Native"

E. Salazar Texas Artist Image Size: 23.75 x 17.75 Frame Size: 29.5 x 23.5 Medium: Oil "The Brave"

Don Warren (1935-2006) Austin Artist Image Size: 20 x 24 Frame Size: 29.5 x 33.5 Medium: Oil "Mountains with Century Plant" Biography Don Warren (1935-2006) Most of my works are blue...

Eric Harrison (Born 1971) Texas Hill Country Artist Image Size: 40 X 60 Frame Size: 53 x 73 Medium: Acrylic 2015 "Kendall County Ranch" Longhorn Bluebonnet Eric Harrison (Born 1971) Texas Hill Country Artist Bluebonnet painting...

Eric Harrison (Born 1971) Texas Hill Country Artist Image Size: 36 x 48 Frame Size: 45 x 57 Medium: Oil "Rural Texas Charm" Longhorns Bluebonnets This pain...

Cynthia Wiggins Austin Artist Image Size: 14 x 11 Frame Size: 20.5 x 17.5 Medium: Oil "After Sorolla" Portrait

Edmund Daniel Kinzinger (1888-1963) Waco Artist Image Size: 18.5 x 24 Frame Size: 28.75 x 33.25 Medium: Pastel Dated 1943 "Adobe Church" New Mexico Biography Edmund Daniel Kinzinger ...

A. D. Greer (1904-1998) Austin Artist Image Size: 21 x 40 Frame Size: 27 x 46 Medium: Oil "Mountains" Biography A. D. Greer (1904-1998) A.D. Greer (Austin Artist) An artist, poet, le...

John Austin Hanna Born 1942 Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 18 x 24 Frame Size: 24 x 30 Medium: Oil "Lazy Afternoon" Biography John Austin Hanna Born 1942 John Austin Hanna - Frede...

D. Weston Image Size: 16 x 20 Frame Size: 22 x 24 Medium: Oil "Farm House & Barn"

Eric Harrison (Born 1971) Texas Hill Country Artist Size: 16 x 20 Frame: 23 x 27 Medium: Oil "Mission Concepcion" San Antonio Texas Painted in 2017 Eric Harrison (Born 1971) Texas Hill Country Artist Bluebonnet painting...

Eric Harrison (Born 1971) Texas Hill Country Artist Image Size: 30 x 24 Frame Size: 36 x 30 Medium: Oil 2021 "Rehe im Morgenlicht" Deer in Morning Light Bio & Artist Statement Eric H...

Robert Wood (G. Day) (1889 -1979) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 24 x 36 Frame Size: 34 x 46 Medium: Oil on Canvas "Texas Autumn" Biography Robert Wood (G. Day) (1889 -1979) A painte...

Deforrest Judd (1916 - 1993) Dallas Artist Image Size: 9 1/4 x 12 1/2 Frame Size: 17 x 20.25 Medium: Lithograph 6 of 7 Dated 1942 "That Which Remains" Regionalist Biography Deforrest...

Cynthia Wiggins Austin Artist Image Size: 12 x 16 Frame Size: Unframed Medium: Oil on Canvas "Las Golondrinas" Santa Fe

John Austin Hanna Born 1942 Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 5 x 7 Frame Size: 12 x 14 Medium: Oil "Tibet" Biography John Austin Hanna Born 1942 Biography John Austin Hanna Born 19...

Rolla Taylor (1872-1970) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 24 x 30 Frame Size: 28.5 x 34.5 Medium: Oil "Cattle Landscape" Biography Rolla Taylor (1872-1970) Taylor, originally from Galv...

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 30 x 48 Frame Size: 41 x 59 Medium: Oil "Ranchers Reward" Dated 1975 Mr. Geral...

Gary Niblett (Born 1943) New Mexico Artist Image Size: 24 x 36 Frame Size: 38 x 50 Medium: Oil "A Fine Welcome" Nocturnal Western Biography Gary Niblett (Born 1943) Born and raised in Carlsbad, New Mexico and living with his wife, Monika in Santa Fe, Gary Niblett is a painter, primarily with oil, of western scenes especially Navajo and Pueblo Indians, cowboys on horses in landscape, and frontier genre. He has also done paintings from his travels such as Streets of Warsaw and Women of Golondrinas, and during these travels exhibited work in Moscow, Taiwan, Beijing and the Royal Watercolor Society in London. From birth, Niblett grew up with the American West as a part of his daily life. Recognizing his talent, local ranchers paid him to do portraits of his horses. After high school graduation, he attended the Art Center School of Design* in California and then spent eight years in Los Angeles with Hanna-Barbera* animation studios as a background and animation artist. There he met his wife, Monika, and they married in 1970. Deciding to focus on western art, Niblett left commercial art in 1973. He and his wife, Monica, returned to New Mexico where they live in an adobe style home. In New Mexico, he has received much attention for the quality of his painting. In 1990, he was named "Distinguished Calendar Artist" for New Mexico Magazine, and one of his oil paintings is in the collection of the New Mexico state capitol building. He has also been featured in magazines such as International Fine Art Collector, Time, Saturday Review and New Mexico Magazine. In 1976, Niblett was voted into the Cowboy Artists of America...

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 30 x 48 Frame Size: 44 x 62 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dated 1976 "Fording At Dusk" ...

Rolla Taylor (1872-1970) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 24 x 30 Frame Size: 30.25 x 36.5 Medium: Oil on Canvas Circa 1920s/30s "Bluebonnets" Biography Rolla Taylor (187...

Olin Travis (1888-1975) Dallas, Tx. Image Size: 7.5 x 11.5 Frame Size: 15.5 x 19.5 Medium: Oil on Board "To a Good Friend A small token of appreciation" Biography Olin Travis (1888-1975) Travis, Olin Herman. 1888-1975. Dallas. Landscape, portrait, and Figure painter, graphic artist, muralist, teacher, writer.     Born and reared in Dallas, Travis attended public schools there.  in his youth he received instruction from R. Jerome Hill...

Charles Harvi Altheide (1874 - 1951) San Antonio Artist Texas, Kansas, Missouri Image Size: 11 x 15 Frame Size: 23.5 x 27.5 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dated 1941 "Bluebonnets San Antoni...

Walton Leader (1877-1966) Austin Artist Image Size: 28 x 36 Frame Size: 34 x 41 Medium: Oil on Canvas 1930s Onion Creek Austin Texas Biography ...

Dawson Dawson-Watson "On the Hopi Reservation" Has two different old gallery labels on the verso from Santa Fe Galleries. (1864-1939) San Antonio Artis...

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 24 x 36 Frame Size: 34 x 46 Medium: Oil on Canvas "Pike Place Public Market" G....

E. Salazar Texas Artist Image Size: 15 x 13 Frame Size: 19 x 17 Medium: Oil on Canvas "Riding High"

E. Salazar Texas Artist Image Size: 40 x 30 Frame Size: 47 x 38 Medium: Oil on Canvas "Scouts"

E. Salazar Texas Artist Image Size: 40 x 30 Frame Size: 47 x 37 Medium: Oil on Canvas "Quanah Parker"

Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist Image Size: 36 x 24 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas "Alamo" Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown "The inspiration comes from my g...

Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist Image Size: 24 x 36 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas "Bull and Bird" Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown "The inspiration comes f...

Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist Image Size: 24 x 36 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas "Golfing" Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown "The inspiration comes from my...

Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist Image Size: 24 x 36 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas "Wild Dog" Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown "The inspiration comes from m...

Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist Image Size: 36 x 24 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas "Vision in my Mind Big Mama" Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown "The inspir...

Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist Image Size: 22 x 34 Frame Size: Unframed Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Dated 2025 "Mission in Texas" Leon Collins Birthda...

Joe Rader Roberts (1925 - 1982) Lockhart/Houston Artist Image Size: 15 x 12 Frame Size: 23.5 x20.5 Medium: OIl "Howdy Mam" Joe Rader Roberts (1925-19...

Fred Darge (1900-1978) Dallas Image Size: 3 x 4 Frame Size: 10 x 12 Medium: Oil 1940 "The Window" Chisos Mountain, Homer Wilson Ranch, Big Bend Country Biography Fred Darge (1900-197...

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 24 x 30 Frame Size: 33 x 39 Medium: Oil Dated 1970 "A Winter Stop-Over" Stageco...

Chuck Mauldin Born 1949 Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 18 x 14 Frame Size: 22 x 18 Medium: Oil "Spring In Her Step" Cattle Landscape Texas A native of Texas, Chuck Mauldin has been painting in oil since the age of twelve. His interest in watercolor and pencil drawing grew during his years spent in Louisiana. With his move back to Texas, he has renewed his focus on oil painting, using this medium in a realistic yet painterly style. Striving to quickly capture color and mood with a direct "alla prima" technique is one of his main objectives in painting outdoors on-location. Cows, cowboys and Native Americans often enrich the landscape in his studio work, while anything can inspire his plein air paintings. Workshops with Charles Sovek, Kevin Macpherson, and many others have played a significant role in his development as an artist. He is a member of Oil Painters of America and has achieved Signature membership status in the Louisiana Watercolor Society and the Plein Air Artists of Colorado. Chuck has won numerous awards and has had work accepted into prestigious national juried competitions, such as the Oil Painters of America National Show (2020, 2021), Western Regional Show (2016, 2021, 2022) and Salon Show (2016, 2020). After 28 years in Louisiana, Chuck and his wife, Barbara, moved to Fredericksburg, Texas, in 2005, in order to pursue their passion for art on a full-time basis. In 2008, Chuck started teaching a beginner’s oil painting class and later intermediate classes in composition, landscape painting, and limited palettes. He is represented by Charles Morin Fine Art in Fredericksburg, Texas. Degrees in chemistry from Southern Methodist University (B.S.) and the University of Texas (PhD) led to Chuck's career in research at ExxonMobil Process Research Labs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He presently holds 57 U.S. patents in the field of catalysis. He and Barbara have two sons and a daughter, and 8 perfect grandchildren. An Eagle Scout...

Chuck Mauldin Member OPA Born 1949 Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 14 x 18 Frame Size: 21 x 25 Medium: Oil "Barn To Last" Texas Farm Scene A native of Texas, Chuck Mauldin has been painting in oil since the age of twelve. His interest in watercolor and pencil drawing grew during his years spent in Louisiana. With his move back to Texas, he has renewed his focus on oil painting, using this medium in a realistic yet painterly style. Striving to quickly capture color and mood with a direct "alla prima" technique is one of his main objectives in painting outdoors on-location. Cows, cowboys and Native Americans often enrich the landscape in his studio work, while anything can inspire his plein air paintings. Workshops with Charles Sovek, Kevin Macpherson, and many others have played a significant role in his development as an artist. He is a member of Oil Painters of America and has achieved Signature membership status in the Louisiana Watercolor Society and the Plein Air Artists of Colorado. Chuck has won numerous awards and has had work accepted into prestigious national juried competitions, such as the Oil Painters of America National Show (2020, 2021), Western Regional Show (2016, 2021, 2022) and Salon Show (2016, 2020). After 28 years in Louisiana, Chuck and his wife, Barbara, moved to Fredericksburg, Texas, in 2005, in order to pursue their passion for art on a full-time basis. In 2008, Chuck started teaching a beginner’s oil painting class and later intermediate classes in composition, landscape painting, and limited palettes. He is represented by Charles Morin Fine Art in Fredericksburg, Texas. Degrees in chemistry from Southern Methodist University (B.S.) and the University of Texas (PhD) led to Chuck's career in research at ExxonMobil Process Research Labs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He presently holds 57 U.S. patents in the field of catalysis. He and Barbara have two sons and a daughter, and 8 perfect grandchildren. An Eagle Scout...

Chuck Mauldin Member of the OPA Born 1949 Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 18 x 24 Frame Size: 25 x 31 Medium: Oil "Pasture Bonnets" Texas Bluebonnets A native of Texas, Chuck Mauldin has been painting in oil since the age of twelve. His interest in watercolor and pencil drawing grew during his years spent in Louisiana. With his move back to Texas, he has renewed his focus on oil painting, using this medium in a realistic yet painterly style. Striving to quickly capture color and mood with a direct "alla prima" technique is one of his main objectives in painting outdoors on-location. Cows, cowboys and Native Americans often enrich the landscape in his studio work, while anything can inspire his plein air paintings. Workshops with Charles Sovek, Kevin Macpherson, and many others have played a significant role in his development as an artist. He is a member of Oil Painters of America and has achieved Signature membership status in the Louisiana Watercolor Society and the Plein Air Artists of Colorado. Chuck has won numerous awards and has had work accepted into prestigious national juried competitions, such as the Oil Painters of America National Show (2020, 2021), Western Regional Show (2016, 2021, 2022) and Salon Show (2016, 2020). After 28 years in Louisiana, Chuck and his wife, Barbara, moved to Fredericksburg, Texas, in 2005, in order to pursue their passion for art on a full-time basis. In 2008, Chuck started teaching a beginner’s oil painting class and later intermediate classes in composition, landscape painting, and limited palettes. He is represented by Charles Morin Fine Art in Fredericksburg, Texas. Degrees in chemistry from Southern Methodist University (B.S.) and the University of Texas (PhD) led to Chuck's career in research at ExxonMobil Process Research Labs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He presently holds 57 U.S. patents in the field of catalysis. He and Barbara have two sons and a daughter, and 8 perfect grandchildren. An Eagle Scout...

Samuel Wilson (Born 1986) San Antonio, TX Image Size: 24 x 60 Medium: Oil "Beacon" When you see them in person you will say UNBELIEVEABLE. From his series "Being Human" vs. "Human B...

Samuel Wilson (1986-Present) Texas Artist Image Size: 30 x 40 Medium: Oil "American Busker" When you see the paintings below in photos you will say WOW! When you see them in person ...

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 30 x 24 Frame Size: 44 x 38 Medium: Oil on canvas “ Gift Of Rain “ G. Harvey (G...

Major George Washington Littlefield died in 1920. He commissioned E. Martin Hennings around 1910 to do six large paintings of scenes from his 235,000-acre ( part of the XIT ) ranch to hang in his bank in Austin. I have included photos of the paintings hanging in the bank from the Littlefield Book. I am not sure, but the bank possibly went under sometime in the 197s-1980s. All of the art and antiques were stored, and they had a sale. We have 3 of the six murals that were commissioned by Littlefield. I have about 40 pages of info on Littlefield and the murals. Too much to enter now but I will be scanning that info later this week. The Littlefield mansion is still in Downtown Austin. At one time he was the richest man in the state. He was UT's biggest donor for several years prior to his death. The paintings are 34 x 130 35 x 144 35 x 119 Two are hanging in my friend's ranch house. The other is of a large herd of Hereford Cattle. It is actually pictured on the cover of the Biography of George Washing Littlefield. Littlefield, George Washington (1842–1920). George Washington Littlefield, cattleman, banker, and member of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas, son of Fleming and Mildred Terrell (Satterwhite) White Littlefield, was born in Panola County, Mississippi, on June 21, 1842. The family moved to Texas in 1850 after a confrontation between Fleming Littlefield and his wife's family. In marrying Fleming, her overseer, after the death of her first husband, Mildred in her family's eyes had married beneath her station, an action to which her family objected. George grew to young manhood on the family plantation near Belmont, Gonzales County, helping his mother to manage the place after Fleming's death in 1853. George received a basic education in Gonzales College and Baylor University, 1853–55 and 1857. With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 George enlisted in Company I, Eighth Texas Cavalry (Terry's Texas Rangers), which fought in the Army of Tennessee. Before his military career was ended at Mossy Creek, Tennessee, on December 26, 1863, by an exploding cannon shell, George rose to the rank of company commander, the youngest in his regiment, and fought at Shiloh, Perryville, and Chickamauga. At Mossy Creek he was promoted to major, a title by which he was addressed after the mid 1880s. Back in Texas after being discharged in 1864, he took control of a plantation belonging to himself and his brother, and "went to work to make the best, as he thought, of a miserable life, having to carry his crutches everywhere." During the war, on January 14, 1863, George married Alice Payne Tillar, with whom he had two children, both of whom died in infancy. In his business ventures thereafter, George Littlefield, who had a highly developed sense of family, utilized nephews and the husbands of nieces as managers. George's first year's farming after the war ended in disaster caused by three years of worm infestation and flood. Even the road-side store he opened, which prospered because George accepted barter, in particular cattle, could not make up for the losses. In 1871 he gathered a herd of cattle, half of which were his and the rest belonging to his brother, bought more, and drove the herd to Abilene, Kansas, where he sold the animals for enough to discharge all of his debts and leave him with $3,600 "to begin business." Over the next several years entrepreneur Littlefield opened a dry goods store in partnership with J. C. Dilworth in Gonzales, bought and trailed cattle, bought ranches in Caldwell and Hays counties, and developed his plantations. In the trailing business, Littlefield commonly bought his cattle, rather than, as most trailing contractors did, trailing them for a fee. He took the greater risk but reaped the greater reward in their sale. In 1877 Littlefield bought water rights along the Canadian River near Tascosa and established the XIT Ranch which he sold in 1881 for $248,000. Littlefield rejoiced that he had obtained "far more money than he had ever expected to have" and thought of retiring at thirty-nine years of age. But he did not retire, as "he learned. . .that the more money a man makes, the more he has to make, that a man's world opens up a little bit wider with each deal and demands become heavier." In 1882 Littlefield followed the advice of his principal ranch manager, half-nephew J. Phelps White, and purchased water interests sufficient to control some four million acres of land in New Mexico east of the Pecos River between Fort Sumner and Roswell, on which he established the Bosque Grande Ranch. In 1883 he bought the site of the first windmill on the New Mexico plains at the Four Lakes north of Tatum and developed the Four Lakes Ranch with windmills and barbed wire to control access to water and permit upgrading of stock. His cattle after 1882 carried his LFD brand on their right side. In 1887 Littlefield began acquiring land in Mason County, which soon spread over some 120,000 acres in adjacent Kimble and Menard counties, a ranch he put under management of half-nephew John Will White. In the 1890s Littlefield assembled acreage that came to be known as the LFD Farm in Roswell, New Mexico, on which he established an apple grove, grew forage for cattle, recruited his horses prior to the spring round-up, and maintained the pure-bred bulls that he used to upgrade his herds. Littlefield climaxed his ranching operation in 1901 with the purchase for two dollars per acre of 235,858 acres of the Yellow House (southern) Division of the XIT Ranch in Lamb and Hockley counties. To reach the prevailing wind above the escarpment at the ranch headquarters, Littlefield put up a windmill 130 feet tall to the top of the fan, claimed at the time to be the world's tallest windmill. In 1912 he established the Littlefield Lands Company under Arthur Pope...

Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist Image Size: 36 x 24 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas 2024 "Woman and Child" Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown "The inspiration ...

Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist Image Size: 24 x 36 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas 2024 "Church" Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown Galveston / Navasota Texas...

Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist Image Size: 36 x 24 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas 2024 "Sign of Peace" Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown Galveston / Navasot...

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 24 x 30 Frame Size: 33 x 39 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dated 1972 "Spring Shadows" B...